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Posted by **Benno** on 18 Feb 2008, 01:08

Here is an impression of our weekend at the Modelbahn Total show in Oldenburg on Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th February 2008. This time also with Kai Fuhrmann and my dad! My dad brought his new SHQ WW2 Americans with him to paint - it was the first time he painted since he was young and he did a pretty good job on them. It was very nice to talk with Kai. Normally we say a few words at DUZI when I'm browsing for hours through hundreds of Art Miniaturen bags at his stand (it's a miracle he never gets tired of me).

As you may notice on the pictures, I made a few posters using painted work from a few forum members. I'd like to thank them for sending me the pictures (and approving the posters!). Whitout them, the stand wouldn't be half as nice as it was now! ;-)

We all had a fantastic weekend, with a lot of time to paint figures that had to be painted for a while, and next year we'll be at Lingen again!

Enough talking.. here are the pictures!

The Benno's Figures part of the stand!

Martin is working on some marching French figs

I'm working on the Prince of Orange figure (look at those awesome posters!)

Kai Fuhrmann is painting the British light dragoons from Italeri

Hans Slaagers Hougomont section for the diorama (not finished yet)

The French are storming through the gates!.. :affraid:

..while this guy is having a crap

Nassauers painted by Hans

French infy - also painted by Hans

Thomas Mischak visited us on Saturday (smile!) :camera:

Me still working on the Prince of Orange (the bastard broke off when I was painting the horse!)

Kai can't get enought of his light dragoons

The Waterloo diorama

Dad is telling what's what

The stand!

Kai's set-up

Showcase with most of my painted figs

My dad painting his WW2 Americans

Painted and unpainted

Hans is having a great time

Some people are very interested in Kai's work

The BF part of the stand - again (we had brought our Dutch flag with us) :sst:

Martin has some fans watching while he's painting

Kai Fuhrmann's figures :notworthy:

More of Kai's figs

Martin is talking about Hougomont

The posters (why does my dad always uses the flash..

)

View in the 'showcase'

Painting..

..and some more painting...

Yes- I have to paint my bases

Me and my dad painting!

Posted by **KD7SVH** on 18 Feb 2008, 01:21

WOW WOW WOW :thumbup:

That must have been lots of fun! All the setups are just incredible looking. That waterloo display was amazing. I especially liked the picture that showed your painted Prussian next to an unpainted one. So many times when trying to explain this hobby to new people they get easily confused about "painting" a toy soldier. But having the two side by side shows the artistry of our hobby.

I wish I could have been there. Heck I wish we had something like that that happened even close to me.

Posted by **Siegfried** on 18 Feb 2008, 08:35

Nice pictures benno! You put up a professional looking show :thumbup:

Cheers,

Christiaan

Posted by **chen** on 18 Feb 2008, 09:36

WOW! it's so cool! :thumbup:

I wish also I could have been there.

Posted by **Adam** on 18 Feb 2008, 09:51

Right I'll have to come over next year- that looks great fun!

Posters look wicked too!

Posted by **rpardo** on 18 Feb 2008, 14:02

Hi Benno
A great show it seems! and thank you for the posters

Posted by **efb** on 18 Feb 2008, 14:09

That looks like a great way to spend the weekend. The posters, the booth, figures...all of looks outstanding.

Posted by **holger** on 18 Feb 2008, 23:10

Great show and great photos. I hope to see the finished figs of your fahther soon... :horse:

Posted by **Benno** on 19 Feb 2008, 01:49

Thanks guys. Unfortunately I can't show you all the pictures I made 'cause that will cost me my monthly bandwidth. That's also why I've put so few pictures of the Waterloo diorama, as little has changed since Lingen.

adamparsons wrote:Posters look wicked too

The posters were a big succes, so they'll be hanging there the next time too!

KD7SVH wrote:I especially liked the picture that showed your painted Prussian next to an unpainted one. So many times when trying to explain this hobby to new people they get easily confused about "painting" a toy soldier. But having the two side by side shows the artistry of our hobby.

I've got a lot of questions on the hobby last year in Lingen on different stuff, so I put a box with sprue in the showcase, together with some metal figures from Art Miniaturen, some half painted figures (f.e. the face of the painting face tutorial) and unpainted ones next to the painted version. This gave people indeed a better view on what's the hobby is about. Luckily enough I had more space for presenting it all (just compare the BF part of the stand here with that of Lingen!).

holger wrote:Great show and great photos. I hope to see the finished figs of your fahther soon...

I hope he gets his pictures up soon too. He got two finished already.

Posted by **rpardo** on 19 Feb 2008, 20:25

Hi Benno
Your dad is a lucky guy.... my son always hated to paint 1/72 figures (too many small daddy!)..... and after many years he has finished painting Warhammer High Elven! :boink:

Posted by **efb** on 20 Feb 2008, 13:10

You've always got us pardo.

:-D

Posted by **rpardo** on 20 Feb 2008, 17:10

Luckily for me.... :-D

Posted by **Taphouse** on 05 Mar 2008, 02:06

Looks great! Are the painted figures for sale or only for show?

Posted by **Benno** on 05 Mar 2008, 02:21

Only for show. ;-)

Posted by **grund** on 12 Mar 2008, 22:11

I looked for travelling to Oldenburg. Paris to Oldenburg is 8 hours in car.
Is that show every year? I would be there!!!

And is there any others show not sor far from Paris in Nederlands, Belgium or in Deutschland, not far from the french frontier?

Posted by **Benno** on 13 Mar 2008, 01:06

You are crazy if you want to travel 8 hours from Paris to Oldenburg. There wasn't that much at Oldenburg either with figures, just this stand. There were mainly small scale trains at that show.

If you really want to go somewhere, go to the DUZI in Wesel (mainly 1:72 and large scale figures) or CRISIS in Antwerp (mainly 6mm to 28mm figures, almost no 1:72 stuff). DUZI is in October and CRISIS in November. ;-)

Posted by **grund** on 13 Mar 2008, 10:16

Not so crazy, Breme is near and I like to discover area :-D

Antwerp is a good choice, I often go to Brugges.
Where is Wezel?

Posted by **Benno** on 13 Mar 2008, 14:26

Here it is:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=nl&g ... .80957&z=6

Posted by **Martin** on 15 Mar 2008, 00:14

Yeah, the DUZI is worth wile visiting. I have been there now for 6 or 7 times but everytime it's a great joy to be there. They show a big diorama (every year a different one) and there is a wargame (40K/warhammer) competition. And a lot to see and to buy. The DUZI normally is in October.

Posted by **Benno** on 15 Mar 2008, 04:02

And most of us will be there! This year will be my fifth time already! I had to nag to my dad for weeks to go there in 2003, it was the first time I saw that many collectors, figures etc etc. Before that I was one of the two people in Almelo who did this. The only figures I saw untill that moment were the sets at my local hobby store, now I saw metal figures, like Art Miniaturen and a lot of old Revell sets. I bought two boxes of Revell SYW Austrian Dragoons and two boxes of SYW Prussian Infantry for 15 euros! (Oh happy day!) The DUZI is mostly in the weekend after my birthday, so I've got a lot of birthday money to spend!

Chen, take a look at the pictures of DUZI I made, they'll give you a good impression of how the previous DUZI's were.

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